Agile IQ®
Organisational Agility
Influencing Behaviour. Secondary Factor.
Overview
Traditional organisations are often structured hierarchies. Complex problems require a different way of organising the enterprise.
The fundamental differences of an agile organisation are in its network structure, culture, and design. An agile leader understands:
- What an agile enterprise looks like – a focus on agile product management over traditional, linear project management methodologies.
- Approaches for implementing the agile enterprise in a traditional organisation.
- How to balance the needs for agility with the existing reality of traditional organisational structures.
Frameworks for Organisational Agility
Evolving Task Boards to Kanban
Optimise flow of work through upgrading the team’s visual board to Kanban
ITIL 4 and Agile
Get the most out of the latest version of the IT service management (ITSM) and agile frameworks
Video: Yuval Yeret on Improving Flow using Kanban
Yuval Yeret answers questions on flows inside and outside Scrum from a Lean and Kanban perspective
Waterfall vs Agile
What are the key differences between traditional linear, waterfall delivery methodologies and agile frameworks?
What is Extreme Programming (XP)?
Extreme Programming empowers developers to confidently respond to changing customer requirements, even late in the product life cycle.
What is SAFe?
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), is a knowledge-base of organisation and workflow patterns. SAFe® enables Scrum, an agile framework designed for developing and supporting complex products, to scale to 5-12 teams working on a single outcome.
What is Scrum?
Scrum was developed by Sutherland and Schwaber in the early 1990s. It’s is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organisations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.
Why bother with agile?
Many organisations seek agility. Its promise is faster delivery, higher quality, and lower costs, all with sustainable pace.
A focus on flow
Evolving Task Boards to Kanban
Optimise flow of work through upgrading the team’s visual board to Kanban
INVEST
How do you slice Product Backlog items so that they can be delivered in a single Sprint?
Muri
Learn to improve ‘overburdenning’ the team and its members to increase throughput of work.
Slicing Stories
How do you slice Product Backlog items so that they can be delivered in a single Sprint?
Stop ‘Waterfalling’ Sprints
How do you stop Stories from “rolling” over to the next Sprint?
Three Cs
The three Cs format is the simplest way for teams to turn traditional requirements into good User Stories
Video: How to do value stream mapping
Learn the basics of value stream mapping with Helen Beal, industry leader in DevOps evolution, who explains how value stream mapping.
Video: Mob Programming with Woody Zuill
Learn how to work in a continual state of cross-functional flow
Video: What is Cost of Delay?
Cost of Delay is the impact, financial or even risk, to value for a customer and to business.
Video: Yuval Yeret on Improving Flow using Kanban
Yuval Yeret answers questions on flows inside and outside Scrum from a Lean and Kanban perspective
Visualising work and work in-progress with Kanban
What is Kanban? Is it more than just post-it notes on a wall? Is it a conspiracy to sell sharpies? Aren’t there apps we can use instead?
Working with urgent, unplanned work
Requests at the last minute by other areas of the organisation, or even external clients and stakeholders, can be easily managed if you know how.
Implementing agile roles
An introduction to self-management
Self-management isn’t chaos. It requires management to set guardrails that define the boundaries for team-level actions, behaviours, and outputs
Developer
Developers are the people in the Scrum Team that are committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint.
Difference between Scrum Master and Project Manager
What does it take to lead an Agile Release Train as its Product Manager?
Product Manager
What does it take to lead an Agile Release Train as its Product Manager?
Servant Leadership
Build stronger teams through prioritising and serving the greater good.
Video: Project Managers in Agile
What are the opportunities for Project Managers as the organisation moves to Scrum?
Who is the best fit?
An activity is designed to help improve awareness of agile roles.
